— Our Rockets —
Made of the finest materials - phenolic cardboard, PLA, acrylic, and the most important component of all: the blood, sweat and tears of Imperial Aeronautical Engineers
Although we always try to launch our rockets as soon as posisble, once everything is safe and ready, the weather almost never agrees (except in summer!)
Sporadic Impulse
"Because it's throttleable... get it?"
Sporadic Impulse is our upcoming hybrid powered rocket
with an in-house developed hybrid engine. Standing over 3 meters tall,
it will carry a 4 kg payload to an altitude of 3000 meters using a
throttleable N2O-paraffing hybrid and 2 solid K-class boosters for
addtional thrust at liftoff.
TBL: July 2020.
November
"Pierce Brosnan"
November Rocket was designed to test alternative
recovery systems that would not fit into the A.P.O.G.E.E., specifically
CO2 canister based recovery. It used the Eggtimer altimiter for recovery
control, and later was set up for black powder recovery tests as well.
It also have a heavy configuration with similarly integrated booster
fins.
Initial Launch Attempts: 10 November 2019, 1 December 2019
TBL: 1 March 2020
A.P.O.G.E.E. Heavy
"More Boosters!"
Initial Launch Attempt: 10 November 2019, 1 December 2019
TBL: 1 March 2020
A.P.O.G.E.E.
"A particularly obstinate gravitas exemption edict"
A.P.O.G.E.E. is our very first high-powered rocket, designed to test key recovery and airframe components for future (larger) rockets. It uses Cesaroni P38 reloadable motors, usually flying on 4 grain I-class motors. A.P.O.G.E.E. has a transparent body tube section to capture in-flight video, a 3D printed modular fin can, and a dual-recovery, single ejection system using the motor ejection charge and a Jolly Logic Chute Release.